RE: nokia/checkpoint

[Jürgen Nieveler <Juergen.Nieveler () arxes de>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jf () gmx de [mailto:jf () gmx de]
...
> Our Chief- Technician has decided to buy a Nokia/checkpoint High-
> availability Cluster. As far as I've gotten it, the nokia 
> acts as sort of
> loadbalancer for the checkpoints.
>
>
> LAN1 |---Checkpoint---Nokia----Checkpoint-----|LAN2
>      |--------------------VPN-----------------|
>
> Are there any known drawbacks /pitfalls /whatever when operating these
> devices with network -loads > 250MBps ?

Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but our distributor once told me that the
Nokia HA bundle does only do failover clustering, not real loadbalancing.

AFAIK you can only use them as load-balancers if you configure both machines
as gateways and tell half of your clients to use one of them, the other half
to use the other.

Besides... I think the Network cards on the Nokias support only up to
100MBit... 

Just my 2 Cents...

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely

Juergen Nieveler
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